Bean Shell Compiler

By vijay on October 13, 2005 — 1 min read

Bean Shell makes your Java programs scriptable. Recently I started working on it. BeanShell provides its own JavaScript-like syntax to access your Java Objects. You can even change the syntax to anything you like using JavaCC. I started playing with it. BeanShell uses a Parser and Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) to tokenize the code. Here’s a small class for compiling the BSH script, before sending it to the interpreter.

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importjava.io.FileReader;

importbsh.ParseException;

importbsh.Parser;

/**

* BshCompiler Class is used to compile the scripts and verify for the syntax